From Center for Civic Design:

Neither rain nor snow will stop the United States Postal Service from delivering mail, but a poorly designed ballot envelope can.

Have you ever wondered how USPS can handle around 2.3 billion pieces of political mail each election? This is possible only through highly sophisticated automation that can scan a massive number of envelopes per second. Yet, automation is only as smart as the instructions it’s given.

So when ballot envelopes are not designed in a way the USPS machine has been programmed to recognize, errors happen.

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